Derek Williams

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In a Heartbeat

Although the Heartbleed data leak vulnerability is as old as OpenSSL 1.0.1‘s heartbeats (over two years), it has just now risen to instant infamy. First, it has taken us all a while to upgrade OpenSSL to 1.x and, second, it wasn’t publicized until this week. So now that we have a perfect storm of ubiquity and fame, the internet will be flooded with hackers scanning sites and running off with all the data they can grab.